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Tomasz Dobrowolski1, Jacek Gatlik2, Zofia Bryłowska2
1Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, Podchora̧żych 2, 30-084 Cracow, Poland.
Abstract:
The sine-Gordon model is studied with model parameters that depend on both space and time. An effective model with one degree of freedom is constructed, allowing the description of the kink movement in both a temporally non-autonomous and spatially inhomogeneous setting. As a highly demanding test of the reduced model, the case of a temporal drive leading to a parametric instability is considered. Here, the boundaries of the instability region in the form of Arnold tongues were examined in both the simplified effective model and the full field model. Good agreement was obtained as concerns the regions of stability. It was observed that only in the bottom parts of Arnold's tongues is the dynamics of the field model more complicated than in the approximate model.
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